Case Study BovenIJ Hospital future-proofs IT infrastructure with Huawei 10G Campus Network Solution Huawei 10GE Campus Network provides a highly-scalable, easy to manage, and ultra-fast network to fit BovenIJ’s technical and Green IT requirements. Background BovenIJ hospital is a mid-sized healthcare facility in the northern part of Amsterdam. The hospital provides a variety of medical services to Amsterdam and the surrounding community, ranging from acute emergency care, surgery, obstetrics and birth services, to the provisioning of basic healthcare, while always using modern and reliable diagnostic technology and equipment. A primary goal of BovenIJ is to “be a hospital of friendly character with open lines of communications and easy accessibility for all." The hospital has approximately 1,300 employees working from 650 Windows desktops, plus numerous ‘computers on wheels’ and other mobile devices used to provide patient care and monitoring. The previous network consisted of mostly 3COM switches and routers. Numerous critical medical machines are connected to the network, including operating room equipment, patient monitoring systems, and imaging systems. The hospital has two data centers on-site, consisting of x86 servers and redundant data storage. All patient records are kept on-site, and in the future will be connected to the national EPD (Electronic Patient Dossier), in accordance with Dutch Ministry of Health regulations. Key challenges By the beginning of this decade, the previous 3COM network at BovenIJ had begun to show significant signs of age and serious gaps in reliability. For example, in February of 2011, the network failed for a single day, leaving patient records and digital communication unavailable. BovenIJ and its partners were not able to pinpoint the exact reason for the network outage. “The technical specs, the throughput, the backplane, the power redundancy….in all the technical requirements of BovenIJ, Huawei was the best. And not to forget, our trust in the system integrator TenICT. They were very open and skillful and created a strong feeling of confidence in the project.” Richard van Leeuwen, Coordinator of ICT Infrastructure, BovenIJ Ziekenhuis Customer BovenIJ Hospital Industry Hospital/ Healthcare provider ...

1. Case Study
BovenIJ Hospital future-proofs IT infrastructure with
Huawei 10G Campus Network
Solution
Huawei 10GE Campus Network provides a
highly-scalable, easy to manage, and ultra-fast
network to fit BovenIJ’s technical and Green IT
requirements.
Background
BovenIJ hospital is a mid-sized healthcare facility in the
northern
part of Amsterdam. The hospital provides a variety of medical
services to Amsterdam and the surrounding community, ranging
from

2. acute emergency care, surgery, obstetrics and birth services, to
the
provisioning of basic healthcare, while always using modern
and
reliable diagnostic technology and equipment. A primary goal
of
BovenIJ is to “be a hospital of friendly character with open
lines of
communications and easy accessibility for all."
The hospital has approximately 1,300 employees working from
650
Windows desktops, plus numerous ‘computers on wheels’ and
other
mobile devices used to provide patient care and monitoring.
The
previous network consisted of mostly 3COM switches and

3. routers.
Numerous critical medical machines are connected to the
network,
including operating room equipment, patient monitoring
systems, and
imaging systems. The hospital has two data centers on-site,
consisting
of x86 servers and redundant data storage. All patient records
are
kept on-site, and in the future will be connected to the national
EPD
(Electronic Patient Dossier), in accordance with Dutch Ministry
of Health
regulations.
Key challenges
By the beginning of this decade, the previous 3COM network at

4. BovenIJ had begun to show significant signs of age and serious
gaps
in reliability. For example, in February of 2011, the network
failed
for a single day, leaving patient records and digital
communication
unavailable. BovenIJ and its partners were not able to pinpoint
the
exact reason for the network outage.
“The technical specs, the throughput, the backplane, the
power redundancy….in all the technical requirements of
BovenIJ, Huawei was the best. And not to forget, our trust
in the system integrator TenICT. They were very open and
skillful and created a strong feeling of confidence in the
project.”
Richard van Leeuwen, Coordinator of ICT Infrastructure,
BovenIJ Ziekenhuis

5. Customer
BovenIJ Hospital
Industry
Hospital/ Healthcare provider